Good evening all,

Recently I was sorting out my room and found some pretty awesome stuff from when I was younger. The top 2 things that I found were my oringinal Beyblade! I was very happy the sad part the bitbeast sticker was faded a liitle bit but still I have my very own Dranzer. The other thing that I found that I thought was pretty awesome was my Yu-Gi-Oh rule book from the second starter deck that I got. When the Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards first came out I got the Yugi starter deck and my brother got Kiaba's, when the next few decks cam eout I got Joey's and my brother got Pegasus. Sadly we don't own these cards anymore as we gave them to our younger cousin.

I believe that's enough for my rant of the week.

Farewell 

Ayame

Woo...

Hi all!

It's AUSTRALIA DAY!

I do not believe this to be a particularly cheerful holiday, providing you know the full story.

When the white people came from England to dump all their crooks on our shores, they landed and decided since there were no fences, buildings or anything else to signal "civilisation" they were free to take this land that was supposedly not owned by anyone. Then they noticed the natives, although at first some didn't believe them to be people. Either way the settlers for some weird reason saw fit to, that's right, slaughter the hell out of them. And they kept trying to eliminate them for several years, using several different methods eg downright slaughter and breeding them out, either way, not something they talk about in Australia day speeches.

And we still haven't quite got the message of how to actually respect them, we have governments throwing money at them that many communities of aboriginals have said they do not want it. And we pushed them to let tourists walk on Uluru, only to have said tourists cover it in a fine layer of rubbish, but hey, as long as we refer to stuff in the aboriginal language, we're being respectful, right?

So although this is a day to celebrate, I think we should also remember all the aboriginals that died and still feel lost and trapped in this 'free' country.

Ciao,

Shigure

And now a friendly public service announcement.

Hello potential readers.

No doubt some of you are aware of a piece of gossip that has come to the attention of the social networked masses of the world. I speak of nothing other than the so called "change to the zodiac".

In simple terms, the zodiac most of us have been familiar with up until recently has been based on old calculations of positions, however due to shifts in the positions of the stars from the perspective of Earth, the zodiac no longer fits these positions. Further more, there is a thirteenth constellation belonging in the zodiac, forming the star sign 'Ophichius', the snake bearer. Relatively recently, the global intercommunication services collectively known as 'social networking' and based in sites such as Facebook and Twitter have experienced a wave of excitement over the uncovering of this information, leading people to believe their fates have changed, the zodiac has moved and twisted around them. Further rumours have sprouted that this only affects people born after 2009.

To cut it all short, this is a load of bull s***.

To clarify, I am not stating that the zodiac and its meaning are false. However, one must consider this: nothing has changed. That the modern zodiac is not technically aligned to the stars is not new information. Scientists, astronomers and astrologers alike have, generally speaking, been long aware of this.This is not new. At all. Further more, Ophichius is even less new. The Mayans, when divining the zodiac, back when it was aligned, outright chose not to use Ophichius because they wanted twelve and not thirteen.

So why the big fuss? Sociology. People are stupid. Not as individuals, but as a collective. This is only enhanced by the mass connectivity and limited physical response through the digital medium. So when a (probably small) group of people find out something that is new to them, it has a potential to spark a chain reaction, spreading like wildfire throughout the hordes milling around in social networking. It's Chinese Whispers, except everybody ends up screaming simultaneously.

So no, internet, you don't have to pawn your themed jewelery or surgically remove your tattoo. Nothing has changed. GET THE F*** OVER IT!

Yours rantingly,
~AR

The stuff nightmares are made of

Hi all

So I'm going to my friend's house tomorrow to catch up before we go back to school. This of course, in turn reminded me that there is only this week and next week before I'm back at school.

Although this majorly sucks, there are some good points that come with it, the first being that I go back to retreat, that's right, the first three days of my school year will be spent relaxing and getting to know the same people I've already been getting to know for 4 years. Oh, and did I mention this is my last year of school? I'm stoked for being over and done with everything, and there's so much to look forward to, there's my Yr. 12 formal, jumpers with our names on them... which nickname I'm getting on mine I am still debating, and I'm seriously considering getting Shigure. I'm also looking forward to my final swimming carnival and sports day, especially when one of my best friends is vice-captain of my team (and we all know it was totally rigged) and muck-up day which we've been planning for 4 years and of course GRADUATION! at an all girls school, this is of course the most important day of the year, although I'm not into the glamourus weirdo insanity things, I'm still a sucker for a good dress, so I'm looking forward to an excuse to get something awesome. Oh, and no way am I wearing heels. You need not be alarmed... if you were. Those things serve no functional purpose and I hate them. I'm gonna scourge the earth if I have to in order to find some formal flats. I'm so excited!!!! This year's gonna be FREAKING AMAZING!

That's all from me this week

Ciao,

Shigure

Hi Guys

Majorly excited, for 2 reasons. First Pokemon. Black and White come out soon and it shall be amzaing, I can't wait. Secondly the new Yi-Gi-Oh movie comes out this year. Yay! It's going to be awesome.

Anyways... Hello I'm back. I was gone but I'm not anymore. As Shigure mentioned we had a discussion about what type of Elite Four trainer we would be. I would be posion because getting posioned is very annoye, getting posioning with toxic twice is even worse. Obviously the opponent would just use antidotes to remove it but you'd get a free turn every time they do.

 AR recently let me borrow an amazing game. The World Ends With You. It's awesome, AR can expalin it better all I can say is it's awesome. Also I finished the main story line of Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs a few days ago and I haven't got 100% yet.


I don't have much else to say this week, Hatori's on a camp at the moment so she won't be posting this week.


Farewell

 Ayame

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! EXCITED!!!

HI ALL!

So yeah, I'm excited! Why am I excited? Because just yesterday Serebii released the official release dates for pokemon black and white in each region!

It comes out in Australia on the 10th of March this year! That's 4 days after America gets it and 6 days after Europe. Is anyone else majorly excited! GAHI'MSOEXCITEDICAN'TEVENBOTHERUSINGSPACEBAR!!!!!!!!!!!

I want it to be march!

Also, while on the topic of pokemon, today I was completed pokemon ranger guardian signs (present) 100%

It was more exciting than new years. seriously. I love lugia. Also this means I can answer ANY questions about the game. As I know everything. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to beat the game. Here are some random facts about the game that you may enjoy SEMI-SPOILER ALERT! (meaning yes, they are spoilers but no, they are not particularly handy):

• The only complete, evolved starter set that you can drag around behind you is the 3rd gen, all others contain bosses
• That area on the way to silver falls, just underneath Blastoise that seems suspiciously empty? Not good for anything
• Tyranitar is the only pokemon depicted on a cave door that you cannot find without completing missions.

Ooh! Ooh! AAAAAAAAND! It recently came up in a discussion between me and Ayame what type of elite 4 trainer we would be. I love conversations like these. I decided I'd be a fighting type elite 4 as they can easily learn moves that are super effective against types they would otherwise be weak against, also, their main two weaknesses, flying and psychic, aren't types renowned for the def or Sp. def. Since fighting types ARE renowned for their atk and Sp. atk, that is a slight stats advantage. I think about this too much!

GGGGGAAAAAAAHHHH EXCITMENT!!!!!

Okay. Calm now. While I'm here I decided I want to have a 'thing' something I do in my post every week as well as the random stuff I find to go on about each week, and I decided, I'll do some definitions. Why? Because I'm good at it and they're interesting to learn if you didn't already know them. Big words are fun!

So, I'll start with the word Abstinence.

Abstinence is a noun, it means forbearance from any indulgence in appetite. Which in turn basically means not eating or drinking.

 So if someone is 'sobering up' you could say they are in abstinence

That's all for this week

Ciao,

Shigure

Epicness!

Hi all!

So today as you read in the suprise post, we had a catchup with the whole 3+1 of us. This is what went down:

• We saw Megamind, it's pedictable, but that's how I like my cartoon movies! It is also adorable.
• We played 2 pokemon tournaments. In the first I lost to AR which was dissapointing, and in the second I was pitched against Ayame's older brother, who was the best trainer among us. I took out three of his pokemon, I am proud of myself.
• We palyed a pokemon board game, as we know AR won, but this is ok as the board game itself was epicly awesome and I had heaps of fun with it!
• Hatori requested help beating the champion in soulsilver, I attempted and failed, and Ayame looked at Hatori's team and refused to try. She lost on purpose and began 'training' *cough* rare candies *cough*
• Also, this happened earlier but was not technically a major event so it's down here. I gave Ayame her late christmas present which is three pokemon movies featuring Lucario, Manaphy and Darkrai. I have seen them all. Twice.
• I caught the bus home with AR as we live close to each other and on the way we discussed several things. and there are some things that I must announce specifically to AR:

• Drapion is poison and dark, skorupi is poison and bug

• The 3rd gen elite 4 are as follows: fighting, ghost, ice, dragon.

• I'm still getting around to the WiFi thing.

• The elite 4 member that has a drapion is actually Aaron, the bug type trainer. Drapion is still out of place.

 That is all I have to say for today, until next time.

Ciao,

Shigure

SURPRISE!

That's right it's a surprise post. The four of us caught up today and because Hatori is still here with me we decided to do a surprise post even though it's Shigure's day to post.

WE also decided due to  me missing my post that we should definatly do a post and Ayame missed her post on the weekend :)

  

So we are currently trading pokemon so that Hatori can level her's up with rare candy's so she can beat the Elite Four, also we are reading one of my favourite childhood stories 'Hairy Maclary'. For those who have not heard of it, it is a children's book about a dog called Hairy Maclary who lives on Donaldson's Dairy. It is epic. 

It is an amzing book do u know wat else is amazing the pokemon master trainer board game based around first gen pokemon it was amazing except AR won  it was depressing but oh well did u know Ayame has amazing dragons on her desk i like dragons and she brought me and Shigure a little dragon it is awesome.

Were only keeping this one short since it's Shirgure's day today. So yea.

RAWR ya next time

Farewell

HATORI

Ayame

This is a cookie

Yes indeed it is a cookie. It is the flavour of chocolate chip and from the looks of the cookie I'd say it would be a fairly delicious cookie because that is how it looks to me. Now that we have established that this is a cookie and I now have a urge to go and bake and eat cookies we shall get started.

Are you a ninja or a pirate? I don't know what I am because well they are both awesome. Also dragons are awesome, dragons are my favourie mythical creatures followed by phoenixs. Speaking of birds I don't like magpies, they swoop, a lot. Magpies are scary. Who's excited about Pokemon Black and White? I am. Also I am fairly excited about Sunday because I can sleep. Well technically I can sleep now because there is nothing stopping me, I just choose not to. If Im still awake me and my sister are going to watch the sun rise which shall be cool. It was hot today, well during the day it cooled down for the evening which was nice. I've rambled a little bit and I think I shall leave it at that. 2 more things I won't be doing my post next weekend because I shall be at Kangaoo Island, which as you've guessed is an island but it isn't shaped like a kangaroo so I"m sure one of the other guys will do a post for the weekend if not oh well. Also Happy New Year from all of us.

Farewell

Ayame